Star Destroyer
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A group of Imperial Star Destroyers. |
Star Destroyers are iconic vessels of the fictional universe of
Star Wars. Star Destroyers are depicted as large dagger-shaped and extremely well-armed
warships, serving in the thousands in the immense
Imperial Starfleet and elsewhere, including in the service of the
Galactic Republic, the
New Republic, the
Galactic Federation of Free Alliances — and possibly even in the corporate war fleets of the
Confederacy of Independent Systems, though George Lucas himself uses the term generically for any large capital ship.
Imperial I-class Star Destroyer| Classification | Star Destroyer |
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| Length | 1,605 meters |
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| Crew | 37,085 crewmen |
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| Onboard complement |
*9,700 ground troops
*72 starfighters (6 squadrons = 1 wing)
**4 TIE fighter squadrons
**1 TIE interceptor squadron
**1 TIE bomber squadron
*20 AT-AT walkers
*30 AT-ST walkers
*8 Lambda-class shuttles
*15 stormtrooper transports
*5 assault gunboats
*Skipray Blastboats
*Gamma-class assault shuttles |
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| Weaponry |
*60 turbolasers (5D)
*60 ion cannons (3D)
*10 class III tractor beam projectors480D per salvo |
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| Hull Plating | 2272 U |
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| Deflector Shielding | 4800 U |
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| Total Defense | 7072 U |
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The designation "Star Destroyer" most often refers to the common dagger-hulled combat vessels used by the Empire in the three films of the original Star Wars trilogy. These ships are commonly referred to as
Imperial-class Star Destroyers, their official designation as of a short time after the declaration of the newly formed Empire. During the earliest weeks of Imperial regime and the latter days of the
Clone Wars, the class was known as the
Imperator-class. When the term "Star Destroyer" is used without further qualification, it usually refers to ships of this class.
All
Imperial-class variants are said to be 1,600 meters (approximately one mile) long. The crew of an
Imperial-class Star Destroyer is 37,000, and these vessels also carry a full complement of 9,700
stormtroopers which brings the overall total to 46,700 men. In service with the New Republic the crews were reduced to about 28,000 men.
There are two subtypes of
Imperial-class Star Destroyers: the Mark I and Mark II designs. This distinction that seems to reflect the two distinct VFX models used in the Star Wars films; on a Mark I ship, the tractor beam array at the top of the superstructure sometimes stands up to look like a tall, X-shaped structure, while the Mark II has the same array on its back to look flat. At other times the Mark I array appears in repose, as in the Battles of
Hoth and
Endor. More permanent variations include differences in weaponry, and three small baffles arranged 60° apart around the main exhaust nozzles at the stern of the ISD-I. The Mark I was the only ISD type featured in
A New Hope. A mixture of Mark I and Mark II vessels appear in
The Empire Strikes Back and
Return of the Jedi.
Naming debate
While most Star Wars lore describes the Star Destroyer as an
"Imperial-class" ship, an alternative designation
Imperator-class also exists.
The
Imperator-class name originates in a set of blueprints produced in 1978 attributed to Geoffrey Mandel and packaged with Lucasfilm copyright however still unofficial work according to Mandel . The
Imperial-class designation, which seems to have originated in
Star Wars Role-playing game material in the late 1980s, remains the designation used in most official material. The
Imperator name first entered common use through
fanon material created by Curtis Saxton, who decided to use
Imperator as the name of the class on his fan site.
Saxton was subsequently brought on as a technical consultant for the
Incredible Cross-Sections guide for
Revenge of the Sith, bringing the name into an official book by stating that
"Imperator-class" was the original designation, but the class was re-dubbed
Imperial after the Jedi Purge. The novel
Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader has
Imperator still being the name for the Empire's recently manufactured Star Destroyers, several weeks after the end of the Clone Wars.
The Official
Star Wars Databank Republic Attack Cruiser EU page states that the ship was designated as
Imperator when it was conceived and designed and implies that by the time the ship entered service, it was already going by the name
Imperial. However, the "final" version might just as well refer to the more widely seen Mk. II model. Following traditional naval naming conventions, the proper name of the class is the second one,
Imperial, which takes precedence.
Features
=Main bridge
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A view of a crewpit. |
The main bridge of all known Imperial ships has the same basic layout. The outermost part features nine triangular viewports. The center contains two crewpits which are sunken into the main deck 1.7 meters, and house the main controls and computer terminals/control consoles of the ship. Between these two crewpits is the command walkway. To the right and left sides of the bridge are two alcoves containing the weapons and defense stations. Behind the bridge are the communications stations, a turbolift, and a HoloNet pod for ship-to-ship communications.
=Weapons
=A single Imperial Star Destroyer is said to have sufficient firepower to overwhelm almost any warship deployed by enemies of the Empire, and to be capable of reducing a hostile planet to an uninhabitable ruin. Later
Rebel Alliance ships, particularly
Mon Calamari Cruisers, could be a match for a Star Destroyer individually - although greatly outnumbered as a class.
According to the ILM model, the ISD-I has batteries of four massive double-barreled turrets on either side of the main superstructure. Six are heavy turbolasers and two are heavy ion cannons. The heavy turbolasers are 50 meters in length. There are smaller visible gun-emplacements on the centerline and in the notches on the edge of the hull. This was stated in the
Dorling Kindersley factbook
Star Wars: Incredible Cross Sections. On the ILM model for the ISD-II, eight-barreled guns in open mountings replace the larger turrets.
According to books made by
West End Games, the ISD-I has an armament of 60 Taim & Bak XX-9
turbolaser batteries, 60 Borstel NK-7
ion cannons, and 10 Phylon Q7 Class III
tractor beam projectors. The tractor beam projectors working in conjunction can reel in a Rebel Assault Frigate (modified Dreadnaught with increased manueverability).
The ISD-II is said to be armed with 50 heavy
turbolaser batteries, 50 heavy
turbolaser cannons, 20 ion cannons, and 10 tractor beam projectors, which gives it a significant firepower advantage over the ISD-I.
Both models can house a full wing of 72 Imperial
TIEs organized into 12-fighter squadrons. At the time of the
Battle of Yavin, a standard wing included 4
TIE Fighter squadrons, 1
TIE Interceptor squadron, and 1
TIE Bomber squadron. By the
Battle of Endor, one of the fighter squadrons was replaced with an interceptor squadron.
Star Destroyers also carry ground forces.
Expanded Universe literature places several thousand troops, a prefabricated base for rapid subjugation of rebellious territories, 20
AT-ATs, and 30
AT-STs. According to such sources, Imperial Star Destroyers also carried support craft and drop ships, including the
Y85 Titan Dropship and the
Sentinel-class Shuttle. They also had 8 Lambda-class shuttles.
=Sensor globes or shield generators
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Geodesic domes located on and around the bridge superstructure of Star Destroyers and related ships have been alternatively portrayed as both sensor globes and shield generators in Star Wars literature.
It appears that these domes were originally inteded to be sensor globes, as
Richard Edlund, who was in charge of visual effects for Return of the Jedi, described the spheres as "radar domes" in a 1983 interview by
Cinefex magazine in which he discussed the demise of the
Executor. However, in the movie itself, bridge officers declared that the shields were down after one of these globes was destroyed, leading to confusion among authors of various sourcebooks on the Star Wars universe.
Many older reference books such as
The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels and
The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology label the pair of globes on top of the bridge as "Deflector Shield Generators," while the use of the globes as shield generators is also evident in
LucasArts'
X-Wing and
TIE Fighter computer games, where the shields of a Star Destroyer are knocked out if the two generators above the bridge are destroyed. This strategy is also used during combat against Star Destroyers in
Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader for Nintendo Gamecube, where the globes are referred to as shield generators - along with the hemisphere on the ship's underside. In the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies, the globes are clearly labeled in the targeting system as "Shield" and "Secondary Shield"
Inside the Worlds of Star Wars shows the bridge area of the Executor and declares the globes to be sensor globes. However, it also places backup bridge shield generators in the base of the domes.
Areas of service
=Imperial service
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Imperial-class Star Destroyers had a distinguished place in the
Imperial Starfleet, symbolizing the Empire's military might. According to official literature, the Imperial Fleet had a peak strength of "over 25,000 Star Destroyers."
Some Star Destroyers were destroyed in the fractious warfare that followed the death of Emperor
Palpatine at Endor. Others heeded the summons of Palpatine's clone, and rallied secretly in the
Deep Core. Others defected to (or were captured by) Rebels. The majority of the surrendered vessels were decommissioned, but some remained in service in the New Republic's navy (
see below).
Imperial-class star destroyers are identified as the centerpiece of Superiority Fleets, used by local sector-level forces to scour Imperial space clear of enemy warships (i.e., Rebel ships). Within each Superiority Fleet, six ISDs served as the command ships for component formations known as "Battle Squadrons."
ISDs have also been observed to operate more or less independently, or in pairs as guard ships on important worlds. By the time of the final peace between the
remnants of the Empire and the heirs of the Rebellion, the eight remaining sector fleets of what was left of Imperial Space still centered around the
Imperial-class Star Destroyer, with around a dozen such ships per Sector, but they often operated as battle lines without support from smaller vessels, and may have been refitted to carry more defensive weaponry on their own hulls, making them more capable of fending off fighter and gunship attack.
Scores of
Imperial-class ships are shown as forming the vanguard of Imperial battle-fleets. At the Battle of Endor in
Return of the Jedi, there were about forty
Imperial-class destroyers and one
Super Star Destroyer.
In other Star Wars lore, a battlefleet charged with defending the Imperial Core Worlds had one Super Star Destroyer and fifty-seven other capital ships, while Grand Admiral Josef Grunger's fleet consisted of one Super Star Destroyer, thirty Star Destroyers, and almost 200 smaller ships, and the fleet assembled by
Admiral Daala included one Super Star Destroyer, more than forty
Imperial-class ships, and more than a hundred
Victory-class ships. A fleet at the center of the Empire's strategies for defending the Outer Rim,
Black Sword Command, contained about forty
Imperial-class and
Victory-class Star Destroyers and three Super Star Destroyers, but one of these SSDs was simply fitting out at a shipyard within the command's jurisdiction, and it is not impossible that at least one of the others was merely under construction.
=New Republic service
=The
Imperial-class Star Destroyer has also appeared in the forces of other space-defense navies. A number were commissioned into the private defense-fleet of the shipyard system of Kuat where they were initially designed, while the independent monarchy that ruled the
Hapes Star Cluster was able to seize some vessels during their war against Imperial occupation. After the fall of the Empire, Star Destroyers were most visible in the armadas of the New Republic. The refits implemented by that government often involved structural modifications, and generally required a much smaller crew. These revisions resulted in a lack of capability to deploy planetary-assault soldiers and greatly reduced endurance, as the New Republic Defense Force doctrine operated ships on relatively short patrols and deemphasized armies of occupation. Because Star Destroyers tended to be larger than most New Republic starships, they were often pressed into service as command ships or the centerpiece of battlegroups. Many of those used by the New Republic were symbolically high-profile prizes of war, such as the
Accuser and
Adjudicator captured at the Battle of Endor, the
Avarice which defected during the
Bacta War, and the
Tyrant which had once been part of Darth Vader's personal fleet; renamed
Emancipator,
Liberator,
Freedom and
Rebel Dream respectively
=Private service
=Within the Expanded Universe, one
Imperial II-class Star Destroyer is in private hands, the
Errant Venture (formerly the HIMS
Virulence), captained by the smuggler and rogue
Booster Terrik. It was captured several years after the
Battle of Endor during the
Bacta War against
Ysanne Isard, but was in poor condition for many years owing to the great cost of maintaining such a large vessel, and it had been stripped of the vast majority of her armament: only ten turbolasers were permitted, and even those were not always functional. Years later, she received a comprehensive refit in exchange for use in a
New Republic special-operations raid on an Imperial base, including a deep red paint job to replace the classic Imperial white. While Captain Terrik was not permitted to keep all of his weapons after the operation, they were reinstated during the
Yuuzhan Vong invasion, and, according to rumor, were augmented by a ship-killing superlaser. During the Vong invasion, the
Errant Venture served as a temporary
Jedi sanctuary and also as squadron flagship in the forces that rallied to defeat the Yuuzhan Vong. No other demilitarized and nominally civilian Star Destroyers in are known to exist, although in practice, some ex-Imperial ships like the pirate flagship
Invidious were little different in their capabilities than the
Errant Venture at some stages of her career.
In the original draft scripts of the movie that would become
Star Wars, it can be noted that the term "Stardestroyer" (as a
compound word) referred to two-man fighters flown by what would become the
Galactic Empire in later versions. During the classic era of
Star Wars merchandising (1976–1983), preproduction artworks and some published literature perpetuated the compound word as a reference to the large, movie versions of Imperial warships.
Destroyers
Within Star Wars lore, while similar dagger-hulled warships are said to have existed for thousands of years, the earliest ships called "Star Destroyers" are the 900 m
Victory-class and the 1,137 m
Venator-class, deployed by the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars, the conflict which saw that once-democratic federation transformed into the autocratic Empire. Although the two were comparable in size and power, each had distinct characteristics and abilities that the other lacked. These vessels were also employed by the fledgling Empire, but the
Venator-class was later phased out in favor of larger and more powerful designs.
Victory-class Star Destroyer
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Victory I-class Star Destroyer |
The
Victory-class Star Destroyer was originally described in West End Games'
The Star Wars Sourcebook in the 1980s (But the design existed since conceptual art of ANH). It was designed by
Rendili Stardrive to compete with
Kuat Drive Yards and the successful
Acclamator-class long-range military assault transport. They were the most powerful medium combatants of the
Galactic Republic's military machine during the Clone Wars. The Republic bought both the
Victory-class and KDY's competing
Venator-class ships in great numbers.
Ships of the
Victory class are 900 meters long. Depictions of the engines vary: some sources show the
Victory possessing three primary ion drives for sub-light propulsion; others show two. However, they are somewhat sluggish spacecraft and even later refits never really fixed that design flaw. The first flight of ships was capable of independent flight in atmosphere; in one of the most infamous examples of this capability, then-Captain
Tarkin landed his vessel on a crowd of protestors in what would later be called the Ghorman Massacre. The second flight was not capable of effective atmospheric operations.
The
Victory-I subclass included eighty concussion missile tubes, while the rarely produced
Victory-II subclass lacked them in favour of ion cannons. The
Victory-II also had faster sublight drives for better space-to-space combat and lost its atmospheric capability. All ships carried two squadrons of star-fighters.
With the rise of the
Empire, the
Victory was replaced in general service by the
Imperial-class Star Destroyer. Many
Victory-class ships were sold off (many to the
Corporate Sector) or decommissioned.
One notable feature of the
Victory-class is that it is one of the largest ships capable of operating effectively in the atmosphere of a planet. This gives it an advantage over its larger cousins in planetary assault scenarios, where it can be used to provide close-support for ground forces, and to intimidate the enemy. This advantage did not prevent it from being phased out and replaced by new classes as the main warship of the Empire, but it did ensure that the
Victory was often assigned to invasion or policing fleets to make use of this ability.
Venator-class Star Destroyer
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A Venator-class Star Destroyer above Coruscant. The red and gold livery indicates that this is an Old Republic example of the class |
Venator-class Star Destroyer| Classification | Star Destroyer |
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| Length | 1,137 meters |
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| Crew | 7,400 crewmen |
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| Onboard complement |
*~3,900 troopers
*420 starfighters (35 squadrons)
*40 LAAT/i gunships
*24 AT-TE walkers |
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| Weaponry |
*8 heavy turbolaser batteries (10D)
*2 double turbolaser batteries (2D)
*52 laser cannons (0.125D)
*4 heavy proton torpedo tubes (90D) 450D per salvo
*6 tractor beam projectors |
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| Hull Plating | ~1675 U |
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| Deflector Shielding | ~3350 U |
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| Total Defense | ~5025 U |
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Also known as "Republic Attack Cruisers,"
Venator-class Star Destroyers were the successors of the successful tradition of the
Acclamator-class assault transports and the
Victory-class Star Destroyers. While the
Acclamator was primarily an armed troop transport and the
Victory was a jack-of-all-trades, the
Venator was primarily a
starfighter carrier/
destroyer.
The
Venator-class destroyer was 1,137 meters long and carried a crew of 7,400. Its main reactor could consume up to 40,000 tons of fuel per second and had engines that could accelerate the massive vessel at 30,000 m/s². The ship was capable of operating within atmospheres and landing for docking as well retrieving/disembarking the ground forces.
The
Venator-class carried 420 starfighters in its large hangar bays, a feature phased out of successor
destroyer designs in favor of heavier weapons on the ships themselves. Standard fighter complement was 192
V-Wing starfighters, 36
ARC-170 starfighters, and 192 Eta-2
Actis Jedi Interceptors. 40
LAAT/i gunships and 24
AT-TE walkers were carried for ground operations. Combined with its fighters, the
Venator's powerful engines, strong deflector shields and armament consisting of 8 heavy turbolaser turrets, 2 medium dual turbolaser cannons, 52 point-defense laser cannons, 4 heavy proton torpedo tubes, and 6 tractor beam projectors made it one of the most powerful and fearsome medium warships of the time. Some
Venator-class ships also carried
SPHA-T turbolaser walkers in their hangar bays, which were used to provide extra close-range firepower and to defend the open hangar bays, the most vulnerable part of the ships.
Venator-class Star Destroyers were deployed in a number of battles during the
Clone Wars, most notably during the
Battle of Coruscant when upwards of a thousand of the ships helped protect the capital. As the
Galactic Republic transformed into the
Galactic Empire, the
Venator ceased production in favor of the newer
Imperator-class and
Tector-class Star Destroyers. Thousands of
Venators procured during the Clone Wars were slowly mothballed over the succeeding decade. Even though the "Imperator" and "Tector" classes fit the Imperial policy of rule through terror better than the Venator, many tacticians and fleet commanders preferred the older design of Star Destroyer, due to its carrying capacity and sleek appearance, and would have opted for an upgraded design of the Venator rather than the new Imperator.
Confederacy of Independent Systems Star Destroyers
The cigar-shaped Separatist cruisers seen in
Revenge of the Sith have been called Star Destroyers by George Lucas on the ROTS commentary track, even though no canonical sources refer to them as such. While their capabilities and power levels are comparable to Old Republic and Imperial Star Destroyers, they are depicted solely as components of the CIS starfleet.
Providence-class destroyer
See Trade Federation CruiserA type of ship used by the
Trade Federation and the
Confederacy of Independent Systems, this class was shaped like a tapered cylinder. At 1,088 meters in length it was larger than the
Republic's Victory class but smaller than Star Destroyers later fielded by the Republic. The standard ships apparently had limited hangar facilities, a limitation corrected in some variants. The variants had extended hangars at the expense of engine space, but were capable of 2,500 Gs in open space and 2,000 km/h in atmosphere. It has been claimed that these craft lacked direct power feeds from the reactor to the guns. However their offensive armament included a large number of
proton torpedo launchers.
Invisible Hand-type
See Trade Federation CruiserWith a known production run of 3 ships, this
Providence variant saw limited use in the
Clone Wars. When Viceroy Gunray commissioned this ship, he had them remove the aft reactors, fuel stores, and some of the engine components to make room for a massive hangar. The result was a significant weakening of the ship in return for an extravagant hangar facility. When
General Grievous assumed command of
Confederacy's armed forces, he seized this ship as his personal vessel to insult the Viceroy, who had previously and repeatedly insulted him. Two sister ships were commissioned, the
Lucid Voice and
Collicoid Swarm, and they were used in a disinformation campaign to keep
Republic spies unable to pinpoint
Grievous' exact location.
The modifications to this ship left it with a reduced and weakened armament. It now carried only 14
quad turbolaser turrets, 34 dual
laser cannons, 2
ion cannons, 12
point-defense ion cannons, 102
proton torpedo launchers, and an unknown number of
point-defense flak cannons. It carried 240 droid starfighters, 160 Mobile Troop Transports, and 280 assorted droid vehicles. For infantry duty it caried up to 1.5 million deactivated droids, and had a crew of 600.
In
Revenge of the Sith: Incredible Cross-Sections, it is called in what is apparently intended to be a technical capacity a "Modified
Providence-class carrier/destroyer".
Tector-class Star Destroyer
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A Tector-class Star Destroyer, pictured upside-down, from the Battle of Endor sequence of Return of the Jedi |
The existence of the
Tector-class was established in the
Revenge of the Sith Incredible Cross-Sections fact book, and was presumed to have existed prior to that due to observations of a singular ship in
Return of the Jedi. Lucas Licensing continuity checker Leland Chee
confirmed that this ship was a
Tector-class Star Destroyer. The identified vessel appears similar to the
Imperial-class, but lacks the ventral hangar bay and a visible reactor-bulb.
Harrow-type
A Star Destroyer featuring
Victory-like "wings" but an
Imperial-class grade of hangar bay (fairly large) as well as several other cosmetic differences, the
Harrow measured about the length of a
Victory-class vessel (900 meters or thereabouts) and may have been a
Kuat Drive Yards attempt to shoo competitor
Rendili StarDrive's still-successful
Victory out of the market with their own niche-fitting light Star Destroyer.
Rogue Squadron encountered the
Harrow in orbit of
Tatooine some months after the
Battle of Endor.
Galactic Alliance Star Destroyers
After the dissolution of the New Republic following the doctored election of
Cal Omas into office as
Chief of State, the
Galactic Federation of Free Alliances was formed under a new constitution. After finally defeating the
Yuuzhan Vong and retaking their seat of government at
Coruscant, they began to build a more modern and more flexible military arsenal, drawing on new technologies developed and provided for them by such companies as
Tendrando Arms. By the time of the
Battle of the Murgo Choke, the GFFA was ready to face the
Killiks with a newly updated and equipped fleet. Among this fleet's components numbered new Star Destroyer types.
Named after
Ackbar, deceased former Supreme Commander of the New Republic Armed Forces, the
Admiral Ackbar seems to be a
Victory-class Star Destroyer with extensive modifications, probably enough to push it into being at least a subtype, not the least of which is a giant turret-mounted
tractor beam generator sufficient enough to seize ships at a considerable distance and tow them in for handling by smaller and more precise beam generators capable of guiding them to the hangar bay, as well as fifty
turbolaser batteries.
Although the class of
Ackbar is unstated as of
The Unseen Queen, it seems that this flagship is not a unique vessel.
Noghri bodyguard
Cakhmaim identifies the
Victory-class update as "one of the new pirate hunters" upon seeing it, implying that
Admiral Ackbar isn't the only ship of this class. Given the substantial modifications, this type might be classified as
Victory III-class Star Destroyers.
Chiss Ascendancy Star Destroyers
Recently, it has been revealed that the Chiss Ascendancy, too, has begun building their own Star Destroyer designs. Some of these vessels saw action in the Swarm War against the Killik Colony.
Chiss Unnamed Star Destroyer Type 1
An unnamed example of a
Chiss-built Star Destroyer was sighted at Qoribu and Kr in
The Joiner King. It is said to be somewhat larger than a
Victory-class Star Destroyer, its lines are notably more organic than the
Victory-class', and it is slightly more tapered, among other cosmetic dissimilarities. This ship carries an unknown complement of
Chiss Clawcraft and is armed with conventional
turbolaser weaponry. It appears that they can also be fitted with cloaking devices. They also carry
tractor beams capable of locking on and drawing in swarms of fighters.
Chiss Unnamed Star Destroyer Type 2
During the Battle of Tenupe in the
The Swarm War, there were also other Chiss Star Destroyers, which carried a wing of
Chiss Clawcraft fighters. An example of this class is the
Fell Defender. It also has capability to travel in atmosphere, contains several interrogation modules, and contains a contingent of troops. There are at least three of these vessels, which leads to the probable conclusion that these are being actively produced as well.
The term "
Super Star Destroyer", often abbreviated SSD, is a general term used to refer to any ship in the
Galactic Empire's
Starfleet using the wedge/dagger design aesthetic which is larger than the 1,600m long
Imperial-class. As such, several ships can be termed as a "Super Star Destroyer", whatever its more formal designation, and this is the most commonly taken path by Star Wars characters regardless of their alignment.
Imperial/Imperator-class Star Destroyers were seen in all three movies of the original trilogy. However, the Imperial Star Destroyer had been slightly redesigned for "The Empire Strikes Back", and that variant is known as the Imperial-II, making the "A New Hope" vessels the Imperial-I. The "Super Star Destroyer"
Executor was seen in
The Empire Strikes Back and
Return of the Jedi. A
Tector-class Star Destroyer and the Communications Ship were briefly seen in
Return of the Jedi. The
Venator-class Star Destroyer was seen in
Revenge of the Sith. Star Destroyers also feature prominently in most expanded universe products, particularly the RPG, the Thrawn Trilogy, Dark Empire, and the X-Wing novels.
Star Destroyers have also featured prominently in many Star Wars computer games, primarily as targets to be destroyed by starfighters, as in the
X-Wing computer game series. In the game
Star Wars: Empire at War, Star Destroyers are controllable on the Empire Faction. In
Star Wars: Battlefront II, Star Destroyers serve as spawnpoints for Imperials during space battles. Star Destroyers are prominent in several Star Wars
real-time strategy games.
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Lego Star Destroyer
